Ameies, villages of, found by Espejo, 114 American Fur Company, organised, 197; rendezvous in Green River Valley, 275; comes near ruin in the whiskey-still matter, 286 American River, gold discovery on, 308 Americans attack Juan José, 265; barred from Oregon, 289 American settlers in California, 308; ships on the Pacific coast, 146 Amerind, 132; adoption, 84; attacks on Pacific Railway constructors, 330; believed by the Mormons to be descended from some of those dispersed at the Tower of Babel, 304; beverages, 70; bread, 72; ceremonials, 72; character of, 12, 56; colour of, 54; cooking, how done, 72; cruelty, 100; destroy railway property, 330; domestic animals of, 56; dress, 88; dwellings, 68; eating of human flesh, 79; explanation of term, 54; fear of camera, 92; hospitality, 82; jargons, 63; kindness of, 88; knowledge of the Wilderness, 89, 168; knowledge, 102; languages, 61; linguistic map, 62; manufactures, 70; map drawing, 89; marriage, 82; method of expressing astonishment, 292; musical instruments of, 72; of Louisiana, goes to the Columbia, 140; of the Wilderness, 63; sense of humour, 93; sign language, 62; shooters, 278; women, place of, 77 Amerinds, classification by language, 60; removed west of the Mississippi, 60; shot for sport, 277, 278, 280; subsistence of, 75; three conditions of, 75; titles to railway lands extinguished, 329; tobacco, kinds of, 79; traits, 57; treatment of, by whites, 60, 243; understanding of territorial limits of, 89; unit of organisation, 82; winter life of, 92; words derived from languages of, 79 Ames monument, 334 Anian, Strait of, 142; a myth, 147 Anza, Captain, journey of, 124; to San Francisco Bay, 124 Apache, 266. Apache tribe, where classed, 61, 66; like the Iroquois, 66; punished by Spanish expeditions, 117 Apaches, kill one of Pattie advance party, 248; become deadly enemies of Americans, 265 Arapaho tribe, where classed, 64; visit Stuart's camp, 218; hostility of, 243; scalped by whites, 296 Arc tribe, 139 Area owned by United States after Mexican treaty of 1848, 301 Arikara tribe, where classed, 64 Arkansas River, 6; Bell goes down it, 226; boundary of Louisiana, 221; proper spelling and pronunciation of the word, 225 Armijo, governor of New Mexico, 265; imposes heavy tax on American goods, 238 Army sent to Utah, 310 Arroyo del Cibolo, named by Escalante, 36 Asa, at the mouth of the Virgin, helps Powell, 325